Sentences with phrase «become tallest building»

What was once called the Freedom Tower should soon become the tallest building in the U.S..

Construction officially began this month on the Arlington Downs project, a 25 - acre, $ 250 million mixed - use redevelopment plan slated to include what would become the tallest building in the village of Arlington Heights.

The company is building a 61 - story skyscraper in San Francisco, also dubbed Salesforce Tower, that will become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River when it's completed.

Washington, D.C., is incorporated, Joe DiMaggio makes his major - league debut, the Sears Tower becomes the tallest building in the world, and the first spam email is sent, all on this day.

Lawsuit over 1 W.T.C. antennae settled One World Trade Center is back on track to becoming the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has settled its feud with A.D.F. Steel Corporation to get the steel needed to complete the 400 - foot antenna.

And, after an expansion just nine years later, the company's building became the tallest building in the world at that time.

Not exact matches

By the early 1930s, the area along 42nd Street, directly north and south of Grand Central had become known as the «Valley of the Giants,» home to three of New York City's six tallest skyscrapers: Walter Chrysler's silver spire, real estate king Irwin Chanin's eponymous building across from the terminal and the white - faced Daily News Bbuilding across from the terminal and the white - faced Daily News BuildingBuilding.

Just last June, the council voted Mississauga's iconic 50 - and 56 - storey Absolute World — the so - called Marilyn Monroe towers — the best tall buildings in the Americas and became fascinated by the extent of the building boom north of the border, says executive director Antony Wood.

Gary Barnett's Extell Development is yet to announce construction funding for the Central Park Tower project at 217 West 57th Street — set to become the city's tallest building by roof height once completed.

The Seer opens with a blur of urban lights and longings: the faster freeway, the taller building, the machines that become the objects of our affections.

This helps protect migratory birds that could otherwise become «trapped» in the lights, circling a tall building until they collide with it or become exhausted.

[139] The Hope City project is expected to be completed in 2016 and is estimated to cost $ US 10 billion in construction; [139] and one of its towers will become Africa's tallest building.

This rigid skeleton of vertical columns and horizontal beams, connected with welds, has become the most popular way of supporting buildings, especially those taller than five storeys.

On the one hand, the question of when a tall building becomes unsafe is easy to answer.

One can't stop bad people from doing bad things, but when bad things happen to tall buildings, the situation quickly becomes desperate — for the occupants, for firefighters, and for adjacent buildings — in ways that are an order of magnitude worse than in low buildings.

Wasley, on the other hand, comes from a paternal line of tall and built physiques, and first became conscious of her health at age 17.

We go to the movies and are able to leap tall buildings at a single bound, drive across Rodeo Drive in a Batmobile, become the first person to set foot on Mars.

Johnson has become so amazing in the eyes of audiences that even the most extraordinary obstacles — terrorists, gravity, a fire in the world's tallest building — still seem insufficient because... he's the Rock.

Co-chaired by MCA Women's Board members Marlene Breslow - Blitstein, Andi DeMar and Loren Friend, Vernissage kicked off at 5 pm and as guests ascended the escalators to Festival Hall, they first approached the Magellan Development sponsored Vista Lounge with its sleek white couches, where weary feet could chill and also learn more about the upcoming Jeanne Gang designed Lakeshore East Development project that will become the third tallest building in Chicago.

Clusters of modernist skyscrapers, incredibly tall, glass and steel buildings, became dominant features of urban skylines around the world.

David Chipperfield Architects is set to build a 230 - metre - high skyscraper on the River Elbe in Hamburg, expected to become the city's tallest building.

John Marin's watercolor series of Manhattan buildings included abstract studies of the Woolworth Building under construction, before it became the world's tallest building Building under construction, before it became the world's tallest building building in 1913.

When steel became common and affordable it took over the tall building world, along with poured reinforced concrete.

Hydraulic dams squeezing through narrow valleys down river force the water level higher than the tallest buildings to be built in what becomes Portland, Oregon.

At 30 stories, it promises to become the tallest wooden building in the world.

Using a unique grapple and parachute combination, there is no vertical limit as the air becomes your playground: grapple a passing plane in flight, hijack helicopters, BASE jump from the tallest buildings or mountains and leave a trail of chaos and destruction in your wake.